Function Quotes

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude of the supply shock. But what's probably more important is the probability of the supply shock translating into sustainable embedded inflation.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.